AI Without the Hype
This is the next tier, for the person who already directs AI through real work and now runs real things. If the beginner course was about directing one model well, this one is about building and running systems of them, and keeping the quality bar high when you do.
It is free, the same way the beginner course is free. There is no paywall and nothing to buy. Every skill it points at, the council scripts, the review rituals, the anti-slop passes, ships as a file you can download and copy. A course that refuses to gate the tools it teaches cannot then gate itself. If you want to say thanks, there is a donation link that supports a Bulgarian charity. That is the whole ask.
The beginner course is the assumed foundation. This one never re-teaches it. You do not need to be an engineer, and you do not need to already live in a terminal. One chapter teaches the terminal from zero before anything technical, then the technical chapters proceed. Where a step genuinely needs the terminal, it says so first.
The technical chapters use a handful of words that sound like a club you are not in. They are not. Here they are in plain language, so none of them can trip you later:
That is the whole glossary. Everything else is explained the moment it comes up, the same plain way. If a word ever feels like a wall, that is the course failing you, not you failing the course.
Three shifts run through every chapter:
Part One · Don't Trust One Pass
Part Two · Build Your Own Tools
Part Three · Architecture for Non-Coders
Part Four · Connect and Automate
Part Five · Production and Scale
Part Six · Keep It Honest
The technical chapters are hands-on. They come with one public repo you clone and build in, so the exercises are real, not read-only prose. You set it up in the terminal chapter. Pick the one real system you will sharpen across this course: an assistant you run, a pipeline you own, a decision you keep having to make well. The chapters land better when you have something real to point them at.
One model, directed well, is where you started. Many of them, argued against each other and judged by you, is where the real work gets safe. Start with the council.